Cognitive psychology in and out of the laboratory / Kathleen M. Galotti, Carleton College.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cognitive psychology: history, methods, and paradigms -- The brain: an overview of structure and function -- Perception: recognizing patterns and objects -- Attention: deploying cognitive resources -- Working memory: forming and using new memory traces -- Retrieving memories from long-term storage -- The reconstructive nature of memory -- Knowledge representation: storing and organizing information in long-term memory -- Visual imagery and spatial cognition -- Language -- Thinking and problem solving -- Reasoning and decision making -- Cognitive development through adolescence -- Individual differences in cognition -- Cognition in cross-cultural perspective.